Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Enterprises are increasingly adopting virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) to extend the benefits of virtualization from servers to user desktops.

There are a few challenging technical areas that every VDI solution must overcome at some point. Challenges range from understanding associated licensing requirements to the performance of a wide area network.

VDI Deployment Challenges

Calsoft’s Expertise

IOPS reduction is the first challenge resulting from desktop consolidation

IOPS quickly multiplies in VDI deployments as VMs virtually sit on a single hard disk

Benchmarking a given hardware array for IOPS performance in VDI deployments

Software IO caching using kernel driver

Data Deduplication

Security

Overall storage requirement for consolidation gets massive

In enterprise environments, OS image and user data could be redundant

Use of data deduplication to restrict linear growth of storage

Data access through virtual desktop in VDI deployments brings up a need to authenticate and authorize every user

Different levels of authorization might exist at an enterprise level

VDI environment integration with active directory to ensure security

Access control in VDI enabled data centers

Use of de-duplication algorithms at the block and file system level

VDI Monitoring

VDI deployments need to be monitored for compliance and performance purpose